Afterlives and Second Selves

This lecture will consider Victorian poetic responses to Wordsworth immediately following his death, including Matthew Arnold’s ‘Memorial Verses’, before offering an account of how later poets - such as W.H. Auden and Norman Nicholson - negotiate with a Wordsworthian perspective, particularly in their own engagement with the Cumbrian landscape.

About the speaker: Dr Penny Bradshaw is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cumbria. She has edited scholarly editions of The Lake Poems of John Wilson (Bookcase, 2012) and Ann Radcliffe’s Observations During a Tour of the Lakes (Bookcase, 2014); she is also the author of a number of book chapters and articles relating to regional literary contexts.